AWS Big Data

MARCH 4, 2024

As enterprises collect increasing amounts of data from various sources, the structure and organization of that data often need to change over time to meet evolving analytical needs. Schema evolution enables adding, deleting, renaming, or modifying columns without needing to rewrite existing data.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Along with the Glue Data Catalog’s automated compaction feature, these storage optimizations can help you reduce metadata overhead, control storage costs, and improve query performance. Iceberg creates a new version called a snapshot for every change to the data in the table.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A modern data architecture is an evolutionary architecture pattern designed to integrate a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built stores with a unified governance model. The company wanted the ability to continue processing operational data in the secondary Region in the rare event of primary Region failure.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 20, 2023

With data becoming the driving force behind many industries today, having a modern data architecture is pivotal for organizations to be successful. In this post, we describe Orca’s journey building a transactional data lake using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Apache Iceberg, and AWS Analytics.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 10, 2023

Since the deluge of big data over a decade ago, many organizations have learned to build applications to process and analyze petabytes of data. Data lakes have served as a central repository to store structured and unstructured data at any scale and in various formats.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with the data analytics, data governance, and data management functionality of the data warehouse. Table Cleanup: As tables grow, they often accumulate unused data files, manifest files, and snapshots that aren’t needed anymore.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2024

AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), can handle the scale, agility, and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The AWS Glue Data Catalog supports automatic table optimization of Apache Iceberg tables, including compaction , snapshots, and orphan data management. The data compaction optimizer constantly monitors table partitions and kicks off the compaction process when the threshold is exceeded for the number of files and file sizes.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In our previous post Improve operational efficiencies of Apache Iceberg tables built on Amazon S3 data lakes , we discussed how you can implement solutions to improve operational efficiencies of your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake that is using the Apache Iceberg open table format and running on the Amazon EMR big data platform.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Apache Hudi is an open table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to data lakes. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage complex challenges, such as managing continuously evolving datasets with transactions while maintaining query performance.

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AWS Big Data

JULY 3, 2023

Terminology Let’s first discuss some of the terminology used in this post: Research data lake on Amazon S3 – A data lake is a large, centralized repository that allows you to manage all your structured and unstructured data at any scale. This is where the tagging feature in Apache Iceberg comes in handy.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Better Way Forward: Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse Cloudera offers a solution to these challenges with its open data lakehouse, which combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with data warehouse functionality to unify and simplify the management of cyber log data.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 24, 2023

This solution only replicates metadata in the Data Catalog, not the actual underlying data. To have a redundant data lake using Lake Formation and AWS Glue in an additional Region, we recommend replicating the Amazon S3-based storage using S3 replication , S3 sync, aws-s3-copy-sync-using-batch or S3 Batch replication process.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The snapshotId of the source tables involved in the materialized view are also maintained in the metadata. Subsequently, these snapshot IDs are used to determine the delta changes that should be applied to the materialized view rows. Furthermore, it is partitioned on the d_year column.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

Iceberg has become very popular for its support for ACID transactions in data lakes and features like schema and partition evolution, time travel, and rollback. Iceberg captures metadata information on the state of datasets as they evolve and change over time. Choose Create.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Introduction Apache Iceberg has recently grown in popularity because it adds data warehouse-like capabilities to your data lake making it easier to analyze all your data — structured and unstructured. Problem with too many snapshots Everytime a write operation occurs on an Iceberg table, a new snapshot is created.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data. You can visually create, run, and monitor extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines to load data into your data lakes.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Better Way Forward: Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse Cloudera offers a solution to these challenges with its open data lakehouse, which combines the flexibility and scalability of data lake storage with data warehouse functionality to unify and simplify the management of cyber log data.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Second, because traditional data warehousing approaches are unable to keep up with the volume, velocity, and variety of data, engineering teams are building data lakes and adopting open data formats such as Parquet and Apache Iceberg to store their data. b64decode(record['data']).decode('utf-8')

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 27, 2024

With built-in features such as automated snapshots and cross-Region replication, you can enhance your disaster resilience with Amazon Redshift. To develop your disaster recovery plan, you should complete the following tasks: Define your recovery objectives for downtime and data loss (RTO and RPO) for data and metadata.

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Cloudera

APRIL 3, 2023

Every table change creates an Iceberg snapshot, this helps to resolve concurrency issues and allows readers to scan a stable table state every time. In a bit more detail, Iceberg V1 added support for creating, updating, deleting and inserting data into tables. These files store the file paths and positions of the deleted records.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 17, 2024

With Amazon EMR 6.15, we launched AWS Lake Formation based fine-grained access controls (FGAC) on Open Table Formats (OTFs), including Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Delta lake. Many large enterprise companies seek to use their transactional data lake to gain insights and improve decision-making.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 27, 2023

Developers, data scientists, and analysts can work across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes to build reporting and dashboarding applications, perform real-time analytics, share and collaborate on data, and even build and train machine learning (ML) models with Redshift Serverless.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a popular cloud data warehouse, offering a fully managed cloud-based service that seamlessly integrates with an organization’s Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lake, real-time streams, machine learning (ML) workflows, transactional workflows, and much more—all while providing up to 7.9x

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With in-place table migration, you can rapidly convert to Iceberg tables since there is no need to regenerate data files. Only metadata will be regenerated. Newly generated metadata will then point to source data files as illustrated in the diagram below. . Data quality using table rollback. Metadata management .

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AWS Big Data

JULY 28, 2023

Tagging Consider tagging your Amazon Redshift resources to quickly identify which clusters and snapshots contain the PII data, the owners, the data retention policy, and so on. Tags provide metadata about resources at a glance. Redshift resources, such as namespaces, workgroups, snapshots, and clusters can be tagged.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, data events are filtered, enriched, and transformed to a consumable format using a stream processor. The result is made available to the application by querying the latest snapshot. For more details, refer to Create a low-latency source-to-data lake pipeline using Amazon MSK Connect, Apache Flink, and Apache Hudi.

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Cloudera

MARCH 23, 2022

The table information (such as schema, partition) is stored as part of the metadata (manifest) file separately, making it easier for applications to quickly integrate with the tables and the storage formats of their choice. Iceberg, on the other hand, is an open table format that works with open file formats to avoid this coupling.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 8, 2024

Stream Processing – An application created with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink can read the records from the data stream to detect and clean any errors in the time series data and enrich the data with specific metadata to optimize operational analytics.

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AWS Big Data

MARCH 3, 2023

Building data lakes from continuously changing transactional data of databases and keeping data lakes up to date is a complex task and can be an operational challenge. You can then apply transformations and store data in Delta format for managing inserts, updates, and deletes.

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AWS Big Data

JUNE 12, 2023

After the processed data is stored in Amazon S3, we create an AWS Glue crawler to create a Data Catalog table that acts as a metadata layer for the data. The table can be queried using Amazon Athena , a serverless, interactive query service that enables running SQL-like queries on data stored in Amazon S3.

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AWS Big Data

AUGUST 16, 2023

Iceberg manages large collections of files as tables, and it supports modern analytical data lake operations such as record-level insert, update, delete, and time travel queries. Iceberg also helps guarantee data correctness under concurrent write scenarios. We fetch the metadata of the users_xxxxxx table from Athena.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 27, 2023

With a unified data catalog, you can quickly search datasets and figure out data schema, data format, and location. The AWS Glue Data Catalog provides a uniform repository where disparate systems can store and find metadata to keep track of data in data silos. Refer to Catalogs for more information.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We have seen a strong customer demand to expand its scope to cloud-based data lakes because data lakes are increasingly the enterprise solution for large-scale data initiatives due to their power and capabilities. Let’s say that this company is located in Europe and the data product must comply with the GDPR.

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